Strainer for vessels.



No. 639,208. Patented Dec. l9, I899.

' J. BUCKLEY.

STRAINER FUR VESSELS.

(Application filed Sept. 17, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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JOSEPH BUOKLEY, OF EILLERIOA, MASSACHUSETTS.

STRAINER FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 689,208, datedDecember 19, 1899. Application filed September 1'7, 1897. Serial No.651,995. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BUCKLEY, asubject of Victoria, Queen of theUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Billerica,township of Billerica, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inStrainers for Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to strainers for stewpans, kettles, and otherculinary vessels; and it consists in a strainer adapted to fill or coverthe mouth of such a vessel and provided with means for engaging the rimportion of such vessel to enable the water to be strained out ofvegetables or other solid things contained in such vessel, substantiallyas hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an isometric perspective Viewof a stew-pan or long handled kettle with my improved strainer appliedthereto Fig. 2, a central vertical section of the same on the line 2 2in Fig. 3; Fig. 3, a plan of the same; Fig. 4, a vertical centralsection similar to Fig. 2, but showing in addition a projection on thehandle adapted to enter a hole in the rim portion of the kettle andshowing the kettle provided with a bail or swinging handle.

The kettle or stew-pan A, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is of ordinaryconstruction, except as hereinafter stated, and is provided with a rigidhandle a in the usual manner.

The strainer B is a perforated sheet of a suitable shape to cover orfill the mouth a of the pan and is provided with a handle I), rigidlysecured to the plate or body of said strainer, and is also provided withan engaging part, represented as a projection Z), secured to said platediametrically opposite the handle b and reaching below said plate andbent near its lower end at b radially outward to enter a hole 602 in therim portion of the wall of said pan. The handle Z) should be arrangedfor convenience at the same angle with the body of the strainer as thehandle a makes with the top of the pan A, so that both handles may begrasped by one hand.

After boiling vegetables in the pan the ordinary cover is removed andthe strainer is placed on the pan by sliding or hooking the projectioninto the hole, and the water is strained off by tipping the pan in theusual manner. By this means all danger of scalding the hands by theescaping water and steam is avoided, an accident of frequent occurrencewhere the attempt is made to strain off the the strainer is representedas provided with an additional engaging projection b which enters a holea similar to the hole a and diametrically opposite said hole a thusenabling the strainer to be used, as above described, with a pan havinga rigid handle aor having a bail or swinging handle a and by arrangingthe holes a a in a diametrical line at right angles to that in which theears (1 a of the bail atare placed the kettle may be tipped by raisingthe handle of the strainer.

I claim as my invention- 1. A strainer, having a handle, and having aprojection, said handle and projection being rigidly secured to saidstrainer, at opposite sides thereof,said projections being adapted toenter a hole in the side of a pan or similar vessel provided with ahandle and said strainer-handle being arranged to rest upon saidvessel-handle and to be grasped by the same hand which holds saidvessel-handle.

2. A strainer, having a projection and having a handle, each rigidlysecured to said strainer at opposite sides thereof, said handle beingalso provided with a projection, said projections being adapted to enterholes in opposite sides of a pan or similar vessel having a handle, andsaid strainer-handle being arranged to rest, when in use, upon thehandle of said vessel and to be grasped by the same hand which graspssaid vessel-handle.

3. The combination of a pan or similar vessel, having a handle at theside thereof, and having a hole in the side opposite said handle, and astrainer, adapted to cover the mouth of said vessel and having aprojection, to enter said hole, and having a handle which in use isparallel with and rests upon said vessel-handle, to enable both of saidhandles to be grasped by the same hand.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification, in the presence oftwo attesting witnesses, this 4th day of September, A. D. 1897.

J OSEPII BUOKLEY.

WVitnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, LEwIs F. LONGMORE.

